Welcome to Dulwich Centre s on-line learning site: How to enrol in one of our on-line courses

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1 Welcome to Dulwich Centre s on-line learning site: How to enrol in one of our on-line courses Thank you for your interest in our on-line narrative therapy courses! We have been looking forward to offering these courses for such a long time. They include video recordings from the Michael White archive, key chapters and articles, quizzes, discussion forums and assignments. We look forward to your involvement in these courses and your feedback. We have many more planned! This document takes you through the steps to log in to our on-line courses. The first step is to create your account. Step One: Create your new account 1. Go to Dulwich s online learning page: 2. Under the Login box on the right hand side, click on Create new account 3. On the New account page, fill in all of the fields. For ease of use by your course tutors, please use the following format for your username: first name, full stop/period/ dot, then surname for example, Nancy Spungen would be nancy.spungen

2 4. Password: for security, your password needs to be at least 8 characters long and contain at least one uppercase letter (like A ), one lowercase letter ( b ), and one numeral ( 3 ). 5. Once you have entered all of your information, click on Create new account. 6. You should soon receive an at the account you specified on the form. Click the link in the to confirm your account. Step Two: Enrol in your course! 7. Once you have confirmed your account, then navigate to On-line narrative therapy courses and click on which one you want to enrol in: Externalising conversations or Re-membering and reclaiming lives from abuse. 8. You will then be taken to a description of the course and you will need to pay via paypal to register.

3 You will then be taken to the PayPal page. You can pay either using a PayPal account (if you have one) or if you don t have a paypal account click on Don t have a Paypal account? 9. Follow the prompts and once you have gone through this process you will then be taken to your course s homepage. From here, take a look around and get started! If you have any trouble just us at: dulwich@dulwichcentre.com.au

4 Editing your profile When you first log on in the steps above, you will be prompted to enter basic information about yourself (such as which country you live in). This information will be available for your tutors, and other students, to see. You can go back and edit your profile to include more information, just by clicking on your name at You are logged in as <your name> in the very top right hand corner: This will take you to your profile page. Across the top of your profile summary, you will see a number of tabs, including Profile and Edit Profile. As you begin to participate in forums and other course activities, other tabs will appear here that will give you access to your contributions. You ll notice that your profile summary doesn t contain much information yet. To add more information about yourself, click on Edit profile :

5 There are a couple of settings that are important to get right. The following steps show you what to do. display For display (see screenshot below), you have three choices. Hide my address from everyone Allow everyone to see my address Allow only other course members to see my address. Which one of these three you choose is up to you. Here are some things you might want to think about: If you set it to Hide my address from everyone, other course participants won t be able to see your address, but will still be able to send you messages through the website s internal messaging system. However, if you send other people messages, and they choose to get these forwarded to their address, they won t be able to reply to you via (because you have chosen to have your address hidden). If someone wants to reply, they would need to log in to do so. Because other students won t always be logged in, this might mean that you don t get replies as quickly as if you had selected one of the other two options.

6 If you select Allow everyone to see my address, this means that any Dulwich student in a course can see your address. This is fine for students who are quite social and happy to have other people contact them, but may not suit everyone! Possibly the best option is to select Allow only other course members to see my address. This means that when you send a message from within the site to another student, they ll be able to choose whether to you back, or reply to your message within the site. activated This toggle will disable or enable the website s ability to send s to the address in your profile. If you never want to receive s from our website, disable your address here. However, this means that to see communication in the course, you ll need to log in to the website. Description and interests The Description box is a great place to share a little about yourself: the kind of work you do, your hopes for the course, your interests, and so on. You are also given another box later to enter a brief list of interests. The following screenshot shows where each of these sections will appear once you update your profile: This is where your Description text will appear This is where your brief list of interests will appear Other options In the bottom half of your Edit Profile page, you can add more information about yourself.

7 Picture You can upload a picture of yourself just click on Browse (see screenshot below), and find the photo on your computer. We encourage people to upload a photo, so that you can see who your fellow classmates are, and to make the course a little more personal. Your picture will appear by your postings in the forums, in your profile, and on the Participants page. Interests The Interests box allows you to enter a brief list of interests which will also appear on your profile summary. These interests are treated as tags within the website, so only enter one or two word categories here, separated by commas for example: grief, bereavement, young people. If you want to write more detail about your interests, the Description box, covered earlier, is the best place to do this. Advanced options Next to Optional at the bottom of the page, the Show Advanced tab will give you more options for entering personal information you may wish to share with others, such as your phone number and other contact information. IMPORTANT: Once you have updated your profile, make sure you click on Update profile.

8 What s next? The next time you log in, you will be able to return to the course(s) you are registered in. Posting to a forum Forums are used within all our on-line courses. To add your reflection, just click on Reply : On the next page, type in a subject for your topic (the more specific and descriptive the better), add your message, and click Post to forum. To begin, the best thing is just to jump in and try it you ll soon find your way around. Any problems? If you have any problems in using Dulwich Centre s e-learning site, please contact David Denborough, at daviddenborough@dulwichcentre.com.au